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Gai Mt fnafc, tot He ihortl il lixHi windrr- la UM aa Mt Sinai, 'tis tby MW! tniuj. TMUftM Mill VOL, LX1X. NO. 126 F1TCHBURG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1941--SIXTEEN PAGES THREX CENTS NAZIS SNUFFING OUT LIVES OF INTRIGUERS Attack Rehearsal On Fitchburg Announced Air Sirens Will Mark "Raids" ARP Units Will Co-ordinate For First Time; Sirens Will Shriek Warnings Shrieking sirens will mark the beginning of the mock air raids to 'Toe staged in Fitchburg and vicinity on Friday, Oct.

10, and Tuesday, Oct. 14, when army bombers will fly.over the city, the jlefgnse groups Key Figures In War Preliminary willcopperatem taEHg: careoi the "injured," cleaning up the "debris," and "protecting" the citizens. The Fitchburg air raids will be part of the huge ARP maneuvers all along the Atlantic-coastTM The activities will begin at noon each day and -will last until 6 o'clock- effort is being made to carry out the program as effl- eintly and realistically as possible. Only the actual dropping of bombs and subsequent devastation will be lacking. Nearby cities and towns that wfli be included in the raids are Leomiu- ster, Ashby, Ashbum- iam, Gardner, Templeton Hubbardston, WInchendon and Westrainsoa 1 Westminster Is the district warning center for 'those places.

Headquarters for the district -warning center and the report center will "be located in the armory where a series of lights, costrolled from' lights will give the signals of the be- ginihg and -end of danger A yellow ilght will be the first to come on. It wfll indicate that some sort of trouble is expected, that planes have been sighted. It is an alert sign. The second light, a blue one, wiH mean that the danger is approaching. It is a caution signal.

A red light means that the overhead. that the said has: begun. It is a call for action. At the end of the raid a white, all-clear light comes on. The district warning center will advise thetmtfying towns of the danger as it receives the signals.

It also reeeives calls for help from those places. and eguipment available in the towns. When a call for help comes, it gets, in touch with -other towns; asks them what of their equipment can be spared, and dispatches it to the place from where -the call for help- came. lire apparatus, ambulances; doctors, fescue squads, and- wrecking parties are among the items- of which it keeps -track, ARP (Continued on Page Fifteen) BiCHABD BULLOCK Director of health and social service committee. WILLIAM S.

BROWN Director of the. Fitchburg committed on public safety. NORMAN HARROWER Head of the district warning; center. RUSSELL MERRILL Chief warden. Federal Agent Conference Capital Outlay Long-Range Plan Will Be Discussed By City Officials Tonight Paul Heddon, representing the federally-sponsored national resources planning board, will be present tonight at the conference on the proposed capital budget, which will be held in the office of Mayor Alfred Woollacott.

The meeting has been called James C. Andrew, chairman of the 1 a i board. At tonight's and health departments will be present to discuss ihetr contemplated capital outlays for the com- ina six months, Donald C. Boyd, secretary of the TRchburg working with the local planning board, hi done much of the oreliminary held work incidental to the framing of a long-range" budget of capital outlays. Budget Five) Colored Troops Will Not Travel 366th Regiment WiU Not Take Fart In South War Games This Fall TSpedaT to The Sentinel) KffiT DEVENS, Oct 2-CoL William A.

Smith, post commander, in an interview today, announced that the 366th (colored) infantry regiment will not leave maneuvers hi North Carolina. games in this section last month. CoL Smith offered explanation why the -366th will remain at this. piuvc ABOUHI AKDfWX THESE Payihf by icore and economical in both and money. Why wound, or burn op JM to pay aajrt to the the fU company the electric company, when check your convenience -does the job'10-much more officknUy? 9 If you draw only limited number of per month, you will find Thrihi'Cbeck Account wlU uvr WHY burn up to pay bills? you know, costs Money Orders, it much more convenient.

WORCESTER COUNTY TRUST COMPANY 533 MAIN STREET Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation It has been generally understood that a tactical or "line" outfit, would accompany other field units going south. The sresence of the 366th at Devens' for the next two months (Continued on Paw Seven) SAVINGS BANK LIFE INSURANCE AT LOW COST Thit is the first week of our 1942 fax Club Join Our Club and Be Prepared to Pay Your Next Year's Taxei United States Defense Savings Bonds and Defense Postal Savings Stamps May Be Purchased Here! A Mrrtrnd Bank 745 Main Street HOW FAR DOES MONEY GO? One 'rate war to articles, rent, equipment, bicycles is lo watch.The- Sentinel Want Id every day's-edition you can find many articles at-half the'original you don't find what yoa want in the Want Ads, start a "Wanted" ad of your own. Eight out of 10 Sentinel readers shop in the Want one time or another. PHONE 90 TODAY Yanks Lead Bums, 2-0, In The 3d Wyatt And Chandler Get Mound Assignments In Second Series Game At the end of the third inning at Yankee Stadium today, the had rolled, into a 2-0 lead over the Brooklyn in the second game of the World series, Charlie Keller scored the first run. in the last half of the second scoring on Spud hit ihp- third, the Yanks scored again when Henrich doubled to right field and came home when Keller hit the first Wyatt pitch into short right New York, two Georgia boys, Whitlow Wyatt and Spud Chandler, opposing each other on the mound the Brooklyn" Dodgers and New York Yankees tangled again today in, the second game of the World series of about 60,000.

The weather was ideal, sunny and but not-hot, and the fans were- -looking forward expectantly iff another clash possible, than ihe opening encounter which the Yanks captured yesterday 3 toZ Wyatt was the leading pitcher of the National league with 22 -seven shutouts, standouts in the midsummer all- star game. Series oo Page HUM) AS Bomber Hits Land Big Military Plane Doing Military Stint Forced Down Near'Portsmouth Saf rmer Governor Of Georgia And Wife Are Severely Beaten With Butt Of Pistol In Bizarre Kidnap Case, Police A liege GREENLAND, N. Oct 2 A.big, twin-motored Canadian bombing plane, its bomb-radcs still half loaded, skidded into, a near-miracle pancake landing in a hay field in the early morninjtdarkriess near here today, with all members of its man crew escaping injury. Its gas supply nearly exhausted, own. flares after a mission that- apparently had carried it out over the Atlantic; It plowed a deep furrow for more 200 feet through the IflOiacre field-before coming-to rest, badly damaged, but still intact Raymond J.

Cash, a Portsmouth navy -yard workeri-whose-iiduse JKas; only a few feet from the landing scene, told an Associated Press te- porter that the plane still carried two Tig bombs in its left-hand rack. "The right harfd racks were empty," he reported. (In Halifax, headquarters of Hie Royal Canadian Eastern Air command said "bombs 1 were smoke floats used to take bearings at sea and that the plane "lost its way while on a routine" patrol off Nova Scotia;) The- plane took off from its land base at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and flew over hundreds of miles of the open. Atlantic before landing here. Authorities at the nearby Forts- mouth navy yard, where the fliers were taken, would say only that the big- bomber was sion.

Intelligence officers at the yard said this fact prohibited them from Bomber (Conunued oo Page Nine) Annual Check Of Cars Starts; Oct. SI Deadline Automobile owners must have the equipment on their cars checked and defects repaired immediately under-threat of-suspension of Inspectors' of- the. local' office of the registry, of' motor vehicles started to enforce the annual fall inspection regulation last night -but only warned motorists to cars-examined-immediately. More drastitr action will follow in the near future. The annual fall inspection opened yesterday and will continue through the.

month. For the next 30.days registry inspectors will stop cars without inspection stickers and wiU Stickers in Paee. Six) NO SUBSTITUTE for BRICK QVEN BAKING! BEANS FIDELITY CO-OPERATIVE BANK MORT8A6ES ARE FOR HOME BUY1NG-BU1LDING or REFINANCING! Friendly Advice On Mortgage Arrangements I I A I A A I A (, Posse Uncovers No Clue In Hunt For Missing Girl CONCORD, N. HU Oct 2 Blood and his COTO- dljoday posted $560 reward for the" return of Pamela Ungworth, five-year-old Lowell, girl, lost since Sunday at a federal park near Conway. Hie Search 'Continued SU Ga, Oct.

2 OR Former Governor and Mrs. E. D. Rivers were clubbed on the head with a pistol butt at their home last night by an assailant, who, finally beaten off and foiled in what-police said appeared to be a bizarre kidnap plot, killed himself at. a tourist camp.

Three shots were fired, Mrs, Rivers said, in a tense struggle before she and her 45-year-old husband drove the intruder from their living room. Neither was hit by bullets but she received an. ugly-gash near her eye and the former. state executive was so badly bruised and gashed" that swlaliver Neighbors trailed the attacker towards a roadside camp in the skirts: of nearby Vatdosta, Ga. Police Capt J.

L. Murphy of Valdosta reported that when he and two other: officers confronted the man there, he turned on a light in his trailer and fired au.32 caEbre pistol bullet, into his mouth. Murphy said the slight 130 to 135 pound man, about 35 years old, carried a card and a 1932 Pennsylvania drivers' license bearing the name of Horace Waters BUde and giving -a Pa, address. He added that he was convinced that this name was correct. In New York, a woman identifying herself as Mrs.

Horace Bikte said her husband; a former Pitts-? burgh school leacher, left for EX-GOT. RJVEBS Georgia a month ago after spend- mg a short time in New' York. Capt, Murphy said a sheet pi paper, 1-printed on both sides, in' pencil and found in the trailer, appeared to be a rough draft ot a would-be kidnap the dead man apparently intended to force Rivers to sign it send it Kidnap 1 IContinued on Page rhirteea) Bushnell Also Declares Executive Councilor Lied About Financial Status Oct 2 Atty. Gen. Robert T.

Bushnell accused State. Executive Councilor Daniel H. Coakley (D-Boston) today of attempting to confuse a Catholic priest concerning a pardon petition Coakley had prepared for a Rhode Island gunman, and accused the councilor of lying about his own financial affairs. ntSTclbsing argument InrCoafei ley's impeachment. trial; Prosecutor Bushnell declared that the clear-cut on guilt or innocence of 14 charges-- of misconduct Coakley (Continued on Paps Thlrteea) Reds Seen Strengthened By Spring Through British-American Help If Nazis Fight Through Winter By DEWnr MACKENZIE The sweeping agreement made in Moscow, tinder which the United States and Britain -are to fill vir- FOOTBALL TONIGHT, 8.15 P.

M. ROLLSTONE LEAGUE PARK Filchburg Pioneers Lowell Okoes Adm. 7Sc and SSc tually aH. of hard-pressed Russia's requirements for -war supplies, represents a move'of the importance when considered in conjunction -with the Berlin admission that the Russo-German war will continue through the winter. It means that the Soviet is likely to be able to repair enough of the grievous damage thus far inflicted by the Nazi invasion so that when spring comes the Red fighting machine will again be its powerful self.

This, will have a vast influence on the trend' of the war--might even control it, for matter. Now in order to get the full significance of the present crucial moment we've got to shear through the more spectacular aspects of the warfare and get down to certain funda- Mackenrie in Six) United Siaie Savings Bonds For Defense To meet die needs of all the people Savings Bonds are offered by the Government ra three different series. Money invested in these bonds is put to work at once in national, del ense AH three series of bonds are on sale at this bank. SAFETY FUND NATIONAL BANK FITCHBURG, MASS. Asserts Coakley Arrest Suspect Tried To Perplex Catholic PriesjljQfMileyW a f.

Buttons Lost From Coat -Lead To Apprehension Of Youth In Kentnckv LEXINGTON, Oct 2 -Night Police Chief Dudley McCloy said today a suspect had been rested at ShelbyvjUe, in the slaying of Marion nationally. known golf star, fatal wounding of her mother, Mrs. Miley, Sunday. "Police -Chief Roy S. Jones of about 50 notes of liexington, the -suspect; about 17 years old, was" being without charge.

Mrs: Miley, "50, died late yesterday in Joseph's hospital of three ab-. domial bullet; wounds: about seven- hours after funeral services for her "daughter. The women were shdt dowh by two masked intruders who. entered, their apartment at the fashionable Lexing- Miley i on Page Sbt) New Revolt Is Staged By Greeks Agents Work Overtime As Chafe Bitterly Under Yoke Of Germans (By the Associated A Greek. uprising with ma- chineguns, hand grenades and revolvers in Bulgariari-oceu- pied Macedonia -was reported today as German firing-squads and public hangings' were Credited- -with snuffing tjot-the lives of 170 anti-Nazi conspirators in Hungary, and old Czechoslovakia.

The Germans asserted that. an incipient Czech revolt in Bohetnia-Moldavia was "in hand" as 39 new. death sentences were handed down in the Nazi protectorate. However, two- German aviators were reported; shot in a dark street in Zabgreb, the capital of the Yugoslav state of Croatia; A government decree provides for the execution of 10 "Communists" for each such attack, chafing bitterly Bunder the yoke of Nan con- executioners and the dread Gestapo have been forced to. work overttae.

in the occupied -Slipping through to kill, burn, wreck and On, German occupying forces, conspirators bjC the thousands have challenged Hit- regime in Noway, France, Rumania, Bulgaria and- Belgium, Greece, 1 (Continued on Twelve) Britain, Reich War Prisoners A BRTTISH PORT, Oct. 2 Britahl and Germany will take out frbnj'-their war invand across tiie English channel this weekend to as- sure safe passage 3000 wounded prisoners' of. war----half of the- number British, half German--who ladn't expected to see home before the: end of Exchange (Continued on Page I3re)'r 5 WAR BULLETINS By the Associated Press LONDON--A meeting of the Conservative party today proved unanimously a vote of confidence in the Churchill government based on the prime minister's decision 'Ho welcome the Russian nation as an ally in the struggle against aggressive barbarism, and to fortify their resistance by every possible means." BERLIN--Authorized German sources said today that the Moscow three-power meeting was a failure. They said the final speeches of Russian Premier Vyacheslaff Molotoff and W. Averell Harriman, chief of the U.

S. delegation, showed discrepancies in viewpoint between the Soviet Union and the western powers. BOSTON--With a shipment of British gold in her strong room, destined for New York, the American Export liner Ex- minister arrived today from Calcutta, India; Colombo, Ceylon; Capetown, South Africa, and Trinidad, B. W. CHICAGO--The American Bankers Assn.

voted a general endorsement of the government's defense program today and pledged its full support in carrying it oat. Action on the resolution was taken shortly after Senator Tom Connelly of Texas, speaking at the association's 67th annual convention, urged amendment of the neutrality act to permit the arming of merchant ships and their entering war zones, MOSCOW--The army said today the Germans had thrown greet forces against Russian lines on the southern front in an effort to break through at one point but had been repulsed In a violent battle. BERLIN--The German high command said today that Moscow and Leningrad were bombed last night and other tions on the eastern front proceeded according to play..